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markcwm
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Blitz Toolbox
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on:
June 19, 2017, 04:50:24 AM »
The old
BB Toolbox
has been deleted but this list revives it. Please post additions/corrections or even personal experiences with any tools? Maybe Qube could make this a sticky?
Note: some programs are not available, some sites still exist, some are on web archive, and some are mirrored.
3D Modellers
- for creating and editing individual meshes
3D Map Editors
- for creating large level meshes
3D World Editors
- for creating worlds full of individual entities
3D Lightmappers
- for creating lightmap textures for levels
3D Texture Tools - for assisting in the process of creating and/or applying textures to 3D models
3D Animation Tools
- for animating 3D meshes
3D Terrain Tools
- for creating and/or texturing 3D terrains
2D Paint Programs
- for creating 2D images
Image Processors
- process images in some way rather than create them
File Utilities - for dealing with files such as file packers etc
IDEs
- Integrated Development Environment's for use with Blitz
Code Processors
- that process Blitz source code in some way
Form Designers - for BlitzPlus & BlitzMax
GUI Libs
- Blitz source code libraries designed for adding GUI functionality to programs
Other Libs
- Blitz source code libraries other than GUI libs
Other Mods
- Blitz source code modules not using libraries
Misc
- what doesn't fit into the other categories
Other Tools
Useful tools for Indie game development
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markcwm
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Re: Blitz Toolbox
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June 19, 2017, 05:50:44 AM »
3D Modellers - for creating and editing individual meshes
Blender
- free 3d modeller, cross-platform
DeleD
- 3d modeller which can be used to create levels/maps and models (now free)
Forester Pro
- cheap tree, shrub, flower grass maker (free and commercial versions)
MilkShape 3d
- cheap 3d modeller, good at import/export meshes (shareware)
Plant-Life
- low-poly detailed plant generator (not available)
Simple Tree Creator
- freeware lowpoly tree creation (
mirror download
)
tree{d}
- freeware tree generator, exports to B3D (archive download)
TreeMagik G2
/
G3
- low-poly high quality tree creation with root molding and leaf painting (not available)
TREEmagik Plus
/
Pro
- low-poly detailed tree generator (not available)
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markcwm
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Posts: 480
Re: Blitz Toolbox
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June 19, 2017, 05:51:06 AM »
3D Map Editors - for creating large level meshes
GtkRadiant
- free open-source, cross-platform level editor
Maplet
- free WYSIWYG map editor (
mirror download
)
Scream3D
- like Qoole (Quake) but more options, with 3d game library for Blitz3D/Blitz+ (not available)
World3D
- world/map editor for Blitz3D, uses FastExtension (not available)
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Re: Blitz Toolbox
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June 19, 2017, 05:51:32 AM »
3D World Editors - for creating worlds full of individual entities
3D World Studio
- Create scenes with brushes, meshes, terrain, and lightmapping (not available)
AWC
, Another World Creator - free world editor for Blitz3D, supports JV-ODE and MiniODE
Blitz World Assembler
- A free world dropper, editor (
mirror download
)
EasyBuilder3D
- Build Areas in the style of Phantom Hourglass and FF Tactics (not available)
HomeSpun
- free 3D world editor for Blitz3D
Outer Space Maker
- Create outer space worlds (
mirror download
)
StereoSpun II
- Anaglyph World Creator
TerraEd Pro
- create easily nice landscape maps for Blitz3D (not available)
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markcwm
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Posts: 480
Re: Blitz Toolbox
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June 19, 2017, 05:51:47 AM »
3D Lightmappers - for creating lightmap textures for levels
Light Map Maker
and/or
Awakening
- freeware 3D lighting tools by AwingSoft
gile{s}
, Global Illumination Editor - the ultimate lightmapping solution (now free, archive download)
LightBulb
- Lightmap geometry, edit levels, 'bake in' texture flags. Export B3D levels including all custom object behaviours (not available)
Slim Shady
- freeware lightmapper and world editor for Blitz3D (archive downloads,
mirror download
)
3D Texture Tools - for assisting in the process of creating and/or applying textures to 3D models
AutoSeam
- automatically makes image files seamless (archive download, demo only)
Decorator
- free 3D level texturing editor, works with Maplet
ExGen
- free animated particle textures generator (now free)
Seamless Texture Generator
- creates seamless textures from photos (not available)
Tattoo 3D
- free 3D model texturing tool which allows you to paint onto the mesh
TextureWobbler
- freeware tool to create animated textures (archive download)
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markcwm
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Re: Blitz Toolbox
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June 19, 2017, 05:52:08 AM »
3D Animation Tools - for animating 3D meshes
B3DViewer Pro 3.0
- display 3D objects, converts B3D, 3DS to X (not available)
PaceMaker
- animation with realtime motion capture and physics-based IK (now free,
mirror download
)
SpriteForge
- convert 3D animated Models into 2D sprites (not available)
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markcwm
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Posts: 480
Re: Blitz Toolbox
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June 19, 2017, 05:52:22 AM »
3D Terrain Tools - for creating and/or texturing 3D terrains
ALE (Advanced Landscape Editor)
- paint and terraform in realtime with up to 6 textures, lightmap and export to B3D (not available)
EG Heightmap Companion
- Create high res color-maps easily (not available)
FLE (Free Landscape Editor)
- early version and a later GPL version (mirror downloads
1
&
2
)
MapCrafter
- create 3D maps with scenery in minutes (not available)
T.ED (Terrain Editor)
- use mesh or dynamic terrain, blended textures, lightmapper, vertex alpha; also loaders (mirror downloads
1
&
2
)
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Re: Blitz Toolbox
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June 19, 2017, 05:52:37 AM »
2D Paint Programs - for creating 2D images
Allegro Sprite Editor
- multi-platform Pixen-equivalent pixel art, spriting and animation
Font Machine
- bitmap font creator and BlitzMax module to use bitmap fonts (free with Blide Plus)
GraphicsGale
- powerful tool for spriting and pixel art (now free)
JDraw
- free Java "MSPaint-like" program
Pixen
- pixel art editor for MacOS and iOS
Shoebox
- free sprite sheet editor
Sprite Simple
- free sprite editor & animstrip creator
TwistedBrush Pro Studio
- digital painting, editing, image generation for Windows
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June 19, 2017, 05:52:51 AM »
Image Processors - process images in some way rather than create them
Image Packer
- free app to pack images together, single-surface sprites etc. (archive download)
Imagicon
- free converter for multiple images into BMP, JPG, PNG or ICO (
mirror download
)
File Utilities - for dealing with files such as file packers etc
Powerpacker
- pack, encrypt with RSA and compress media in one exe, Blitz3D/Blitz+ (not available)
Smart Packer Pro
- pack files into one single exe and run within virtual file system
TeraPak
- data packaging utility for Blitz3D/Blitz+ (
mirror download
)
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Re: Blitz Toolbox
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June 19, 2017, 05:53:05 AM »
IDEs - Integrated Development Environment's for use with Blitz
BLIde Plus
- fully featured BlitzMax IDE for Windows
BlitzMax IDE CE
- free open-source cross-platform community edition of MaxIDE
BlitzView IDE
- freeware alternative editor for Blitz3D/Blitz+
CollIDE
- free open-source MaxIDE written in Java
HydraMax IDE
- free BlitzMax IDE
IDEal
- free IDE for B3D/B+, easy to use, powerful with advanced features (
mirror download
)
Protean IDE
- free feature-packed .NET based IDE for Blitz3D/Blitz+ (
mirror download
)
MaxIDE NG
- free open-source BlitzMax NG IDE
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June 19, 2017, 05:53:22 AM »
Code Processors - that process Blitz source code in some way
BlitzBasic Preprocessor
- free preprocessor for Blitz3D/Blitz+ (
mirror download
)
Cod2Doc
- free documentation generator for Blitz3D/Blitz+
Framework Assistant
- free tool to reduce the size of your EXE
Leadwerks Publisher
- Leadwerks Publisher is a free compiler front-end for BlitzMax (
mirror download
)
PreCompiler
- PreCompiler/Debugger (not available)
Form Designers - for Blitz+ & BlitzMax
GUIde
- GUIde is a free form editor written in Blitz+ for Blitz+/BlitzMax
Logic Gui Professional
- form editor (Gui builder) for BlitzMax with MaxGui module (now free,
download
)
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June 19, 2017, 05:53:37 AM »
GUI Libs - Blitz source code libs designed for adding GUI functionality to programs
Devil GUI
- free and fast GUI for Blitz3D (
mirror download
)
FonText
- bitmap-font creation tool and HUD library for Blitz3D/Blitz+/BlitzMax
GTKMaxGUI
- Linux GTK MaxGUI module for BlitzMax - (downloads
1
&
2
)
Juicy Fonts
- freeware bitmap font creation utility for Blitz3D/Blitz+ - (
mirror download
)
ifsoGUI
- GUI for BlitzMax with skinnable interface and many common gadgets (now free,
download
)
IGLass
- fast, nice and easy skinnable Gui for BlitzMax (not available)
ProGUI
- professional user interface library with advanced controls
Swift GUI
- easy to use, well documented GUI for Blitz3D (not available)
FryGUI
- free GUI module, latest version 0.96 (
mirror download
)
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Other Libs - Blitz source code libraries other than GUI libs
Blitz Bass Studio
- audio lib for Blitz3D/Blitz+ using the un4seen audio libs (bass/bassmod/plugins)
Blitz MIDI
- gives simple MIDI in & out functions to Blitz3D
Blitz.ZipApi
- zip functionality to Blitz3D/Blitz+, extract files, create archives and compress banks
bz2 Wrapper
- high compression bz2 library
Coldet Wrapper
- free collision detection library, uses coldet 1.2
CPUid
- gather CPUid and CPUfeatures for Blitz3D/Blitz+
Dig
- game and app framework with GUI for BlitzMax NG
ETNA
- database with threads for Blitz3D/Blitz+/BlitzMax
FastExtension
- blending modes, postprocess effects, multitexturing, render to texture, water with refractions (not available)
FastImage
- fastest 2D graphics library for Blitz3D, access to DX7 API using Blitz-style function calls (not available)
FastText
- ultra fast library aimed at drawing text in Blitz3D (+ Unicode). Drawing text 50 times faster than Blitz3D text (not available)
Grassparty
- grass system library for Blitz3D, insert 'instant' land coverings (not available)
Hull Creator
- free convex hull creator for collisions, uses qhull 1.0 library
ipHelper
- Adds getSubnetMask() to the Blitz command set as well as a onesComplement() function
MouseExt
- Extended mousebutton functions (4th + 5th button)
RakNet Wrapper
- RakNet is a powerful network library, written for Blitz3D/Blitz+/BlitzMax
RunProgram
- runs a program and tells you when it has ended
System Speaker Beep
- makes your system speaker beep at a given frequency (Hz) for a given period of time (ms)
TabletPressure
- Use a pressure sensitive tablet/digitizer with Blitz
Treeparty
- tree system library for Blitz3D, skinned tree animation (not available)
XNET
- open source, multiplayer network library for Blitz3D/Blitz+/BlitzMax
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Other Mods - Blitz source code modules not using libraries
3D Curve Library
- Create curves for smooth motion. Also great for smooth color transitions
BlitzGrass3D
- grass system supporting other types of foliage (not available)
BlitzForest/BlitzGrass
- optimized tree system with minimal-surface, LOD and fast grass system -
Download
BlitzTree3D
- tree system with detailed single-surface mesh trees (not available)
BSM_Renderer
- Bumpmapping Helper
Devil Particle System
- free particle system for Blitz3D (
mirror download
)
Devil Physics System
- free physics engine using BlitzODE wrapper (
mirror download
)
Devil Shadow System
- free stencil shadow system for Blitz3D (
mirror download
)
Digital Wizard's Lab BlitzMax Framework
- free 2d game framework with world editor
DynamicGrass Heightmap
- vegetation system with dynamic distribution using terrains and heightmaps
DST_Dust
- sandstorms, starfields easy created
GNet
- system to track 'games in progress'
Imphenzia Audio System
- library for music and sound - crossfading, volume handling, pause/resume, channel management etc.
Logger 1.1
- message logging library for Blitz3D/Blitz+
nBMP 1.0
- BMP handling library for Blitz3D/Blitz+
nPoly 1.0
- 2D polygonal collision library for Blitz3D/Blitz+
nSprite 2
- powerful 2D-in-3D sprite library for Blitz3D (not available)
ParticlesMAX
- 2d particle engine for BlitzMax, meant to be efficient, flexible and feature rich (not available)
ParticleWorks 1.0
- particle engine for Blitz3D
PCL_Cloud
- Easy-made Particle-Clouds and Clusters
RottParticles
- An easy to use, free and fast particle system
Swift Shadow System
- for Blitz3D, cast realistic soft shadows that deform properly over level geometry (not available)
Treeparty
- tree system library for Blitz3D, uses FastExtension (not available)
Tree System
- fast, prop style tree system with dynamically optimized LOD -
Download
WiiMoteLib
- source code to read the sensors of the wiimote
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Re: Blitz Toolbox
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June 19, 2017, 05:54:17 AM »
Misc - what doesn't fit into the other categories
B3D Viewer
- model viewer for B3D files (Windows and Mac)
BlitzUnit
- unit testing application for Blitz3D/Blitz+
Free Lite Sprite utilities
- tools for creating glowing Lite Sprites
Gs-To-Ogg Converter
- sound creation tool, MIDI to OGG
HOTDOCS
- creates new docs for BlitzMax; also with source code -
Download
|
2
Maximus
- module manager for BlitzMax
OSA Kit Pro
- play Blitz3D/Blitz+/BlitzMax games and apps in any browser's window
Protean.TodoList
- to-do list plugin for Protean, parses comments to find tasks
RottNet
- An easy to use UDP network library
Scope2D
- A map editor for 2D non tile-based games - Mac (discontinued)
Text Sorter
- Sorts lines of text in a file into alphabetical order
Universal Map Editor
- map editor designed for tile-based games in Blitz3D/Blitz+ (now free); also with source code -
Download
|
2
[K]ODE Editor
- visual ODE physics editor
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